God's Abundant Grace

I remember one football game where I was called for holding on a play that didn’t amount to much. The result was that we were backed into a passing situation where a long-bomb was thrown which produced a touch down. Now get this, if I had not held the other player so that our team wouldn’t have been penalized, my coach most likely wouldn’t have called for a passing play with a pass that resulted in a touch down! I remember sitting in that room during a film session wanting to shout, “I hope you realize that if it wasn’t for my penalty, we wouldn’t have scored there!”

Of course my reasoning was flawed. It was merely speculation on my part that the penalty against me had in fact really helped our team. But , I was desperate for some vindication after being yelled at in front of my peers.

And that brings us to the focus of this message discussing another attribute of sin. That God may bring blessing through our failure.

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